Global Big Cats Summit
Kartavya Desk Staff
Source: DD News
Subject: Environment
Context: India announced that it will host the Global Big Cats Summit in New Delhi in 2026, reaffirming global leadership in wildlife conservation.
About Global Big Cats Summit:
• What it is? A high-level international summit dedicated to strengthening global cooperation, policy coordination, and scientific collaboration for the conservation of big cat species across continents.
• A high-level international summit dedicated to strengthening global cooperation, policy coordination, and scientific collaboration for the conservation of big cat species across continents.
• Host: India, in New Delhi.
• Key Features:
• Brings together big-cat range countries, global experts, scientists, conservation NGOs, and policy leaders. Focus on tiger recovery models, lion conservation, snow leopard landscapes, cheetah translocation lessons, and global best practices. Strengthens global partnerships to protect big-cat habitats that support carbon sequestration, watershed protection, climate resilience, and sustainable livelihoods.
• Brings together big-cat range countries, global experts, scientists, conservation NGOs, and policy leaders.
• Focus on tiger recovery models, lion conservation, snow leopard landscapes, cheetah translocation lessons, and global best practices.
• Strengthens global partnerships to protect big-cat habitats that support carbon sequestration, watershed protection, climate resilience, and sustainable livelihoods.
About International Big Cat Alliance (IBCA):
• What it is? A global, multi-country, multi-agency coalition dedicated exclusively to the conservation of the world’s seven major big cats — Tiger, Lion, Leopard, Snow Leopard, Cheetah, Jaguar, and Puma.
• A global, multi-country, multi-agency coalition dedicated exclusively to the conservation of the world’s seven major big cats — Tiger, Lion, Leopard, Snow Leopard, Cheetah, Jaguar, and Puma.
• Launched In: 9 April 2023, during 50 years of Project Tiger celebrations at Mysuru, Karnataka.
• Headquarters: India (as approved by Union Cabinet on 12 March 2024).
• To create a unified global platform to protect and recover big cat populations. To pool scientific knowledge, technology, funding, and successful practices among 95 range & non-range countries. To fill global gaps in capacity building, financing, technology, and scientific expertise for big cat conservation.
• To create a unified global platform to protect and recover big cat populations.
• To pool scientific knowledge, technology, funding, and successful practices among 95 range & non-range countries.
• To fill global gaps in capacity building, financing, technology, and scientific expertise for big cat conservation.
• Key Features:
• Global coalition of 95 countries, conservation partners, scientific institutions & corporates. Acts as a central repository of best practices, research data, and conservation models. Focus on capacity building, training, funding access, and technology transfer for big cat range countries. Addresses poaching, illegal wildlife trade, habitat loss, prey depletion, and ecological degradation.
• Global coalition of 95 countries, conservation partners, scientific institutions & corporates.
• Acts as a central repository of best practices, research data, and conservation models.
• Focus on capacity building, training, funding access, and technology transfer for big cat range countries.
• Addresses poaching, illegal wildlife trade, habitat loss, prey depletion, and ecological degradation.